Title page vignette; headpieces; initials

Running title: New England in America

First edition, second issue (Church 393) with C1 caption title: A relation or Iovrnall of the proceedings of the plantation setled at Plimoth in New England

By William Bradford (section 1), Edward Winslow (sections 2-6), and Robert Cushman (section 7)

"To the reader" (3d prelim. leaf) signed: G. Movrt

The main part of the narrative was probably written by William Bradford and Edward Winslow. G. Mourt (George Morton?) by whose name the relation is commonly known, seems to have had no other connection with it than that of writing the preface and giving the book to the press. cf. Young, Chronicles of the Pilgrim fathers, Boston, 1841, p. [109]-249

Signatures: A⁴(-A1.4) B⁴ C⁴(±C1) D⁴-L⁴.

A1 and A4 are both blank, per Church, E.D

C1 (unsigned) is a cancel; caption title begins "A relation or iournall ..". Variant: C1 is cancellandum; caption title begins "New-England .."

Church, E.D. Catalogue of books relating to the discovery and early history of North and South America

English short title catalogue

Pollard, A.W. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640 (2nd ed.)

Cataloged

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in polished calf paneled in gilt. Spine rebacked in brown goatskin with title stamped lengthwise in gilt. The bookplates of Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow and of the BPL are present on the front pastedown. The embossed stamp of the BPL is present on the title page. Title page is backed with modern white paper and A3 is bound-in between B4 and C1. Modern pencil marginalia present on some leaves

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